Call for papers Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Call for papers
Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, ICNC 2016
Kauai, Hawaii, Feb. 15-18, 2016
http://www.conf-icnc.org/2016/
Symposium Co-chairs
Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam
Email: [email protected]
Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Email: [email protected]
Scope
The Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium covers all topics related to ad hoc networks and
sensor networks. A wireless sensor network is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed nodes
with limited resources that can cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions at different
locations. Each node is capable of computation, sensing, and communication. Challenges may be
exacerbated by the presence of mobile nodes in the network. Ad hoc networks may exist in environments
where there is no pre-existing communications infrastructure, and thereby organize to create their own.
Ad hoc networks have been attracting great attention from the research and engineering communities,
motivated by applications like digital battlefield, asset tracking, air-borne safety, situational awareness,
and border protection. As we move towards a world that connects all things, these issues become ever
more relevant. Dynamic topologies, bandwidth constraints, energy constrained operations, wireless
vulnerabilities, and limited physical security are among the characteristics that differentiate mobile ad hoc
networks from fixed multi-hop networks.
This symposium aims to provide a forum for sharing ideas among researchers and practitioners working
on state-of-the art solutions to the challenges of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. We solicit papers
that present original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc and sensor
networks. Topics include but are not limited to,
Applications and Evolutions of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Physical Layer Design of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Topology Control and Management
Resource Management Algorithms in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Algorithms and Modeling for Localization, Target Tracking, and Mobility Management
Time Synchronization in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Architectures of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Efficient Protocols and QoS Provisioning
Performance Evaluation and Modeling
Novel Measurement Techniques, Simulation tools, and Experiment Testbeds
Data Management, Data Aggregation, Data Dissemination, and Query Processing
Distributed Algorithms in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Pricing Modeling and Solutions
Pervasive and Wearable Computing
Co-existence Issues of Hybrid Networks
Energy Efficient Algorithms and Protocols for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Opportunistic or Delay-tolerant Communications
Cross-layer Design and Infrastructure
Internet of things
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Cognition in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Participatory sensing
Crowdsourcing
Submission Guidelines
Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2016/
Direct paper submission weblink of this symposium can be found at http://www.conficnc.org/2016/cfp.htm
Short biography of co-chairs
Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao
Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao (in Vietnamese: Võ Nguyễn Quốc Bảo) was born in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province,
Vietnam. He received the B.E. and M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University
of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
from University of Ulsan, South Korea, in 2009. In 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering,
Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), as a lecturer. Since February 2010, he has been
with the Department of Telecommunications, PTIT, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His major
research interests are modulation and coding techniques, MIMO systems, combining techniques, cooperative
communications, and cognitive radio. Dr. Bao is a member of Korea Information and Communications Society
(KICS), The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is currently serving as the Editor of Transactions on Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley ETT). He is also a Guest Editor of EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking, special issue on "Cooperative Cognitive Networks" and IET
Communications, special issue on "Secure Physical Layer Communications".
Yu Cheng
Yu Cheng received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2003. From September 2004 to July 2006, he was a
postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. Since August 2006, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research
interests include next-generation Internet architectures and management, wireless network performance
analysis, network security, and wireless/wireline interworking. He received a Best Paper Award from the
conferences QShine 2007 and IEEE ICC 2011, and the Best Paper Runner-Up Award from ACM MobiHoc
2014. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER AWARD in 2011 and IIT Sigma Xi
Research Award in the junior faculty division in 2013. He served as a Co-Chair for the Wireless Networking
Symposium of IEEE ICC 2009, a Co-Chair for the Communications QoS, Reliability, and Modeling
Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, a Co-Chair for the Signal Processing for Communications
Symposium of IEEE ICC 2012, a Co-Chair for the Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium of IEEE
GLOBECOM 2013, and a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for WASA 2011 and ICNC 2015.
He is a founding Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications and
Computing. He is an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and the New Books &
Multimedia Column Editor for IEEE Network. He is a senior member of the IEEE.